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Session Abstract: A Survey of the Landscape and State-of-Art in Semantic Wiki (1MMF)

Officially launch this mini-series, and outline what people could be expecting from the program. This is essentially culled from the input received from the community on our ConferenceCall_2008_09_18 planning session (1NSM)

hear from our co-chairs on (a) some background and history on Semantic Wikis, (b) perspectives gained from SemWiki 2006 & 2008, and (c) where they feel things are going (trends, directions, future scenarios) in the semantic wiki space. (1NSN)

continue to solicit ideas and input to help enhance the program (as part of the open discussion after the prepared talks). (1NSO)

2. we'll go around with a self-introduction of participants (~15 minutes) - All - we may skip this if we have more than 25 participants (in which case, it will be best if members try to update their namesake pages on this wiki prior to the call so that everyone can get to know who's who more easily.) (1NSU)

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ChristophLange: anonymous1: we have some ideas (for ESWC 09) but not yet worked them out completely (1NVI)

JieBao: For 4th SemWiki, how about having it along with ISWC 2009 (Oct 2009,Washington DC)? As the
previous workshops are all in EU, and the US user community is growing substantially recently,
having a US-based workshop would actually be good. - Just for your consideration (1NVJ)

PeterYim: anyone who is still identified as "anonymous" ... would you kindly click on the "settings" button
(top center) and then swap in your name (in WikiWord format) please (1NVK)

ChristophLange: re semwiki4: is there potential for the n+1st sem.wiki ws (who would submit, and what?)
-- or should the focus be broadened? Our idea was the "semantic bazaar", i.e. transitions
btween formal and informal knowledge on the web (for which wikis are a good tool, but
maybe not _just_ wikis) (1NVL)

ChristophLange: ... where "bazaar" alludes to "the cathedral and the bazaar", i.e. to agile and
internetworked knowledge engineering (1NVM)

YaronKoren: It might be worthwhile to note the commercial semantic wikis, available only as a service
and not (currently) as a standalone engine - Freebase and Swirrl. (1NVN)

MaxVoelkel, FZI: no, no *automated extraction*, but careful/meaningful interpretation. If a user
adds a tag to a picture, and the tag is the name of a location, maybe ask the
user if the picture is showing this location. Maybe ask the user if this
assumtpion always holds. (1NWG)

Eric Miller: (side note: I'm not a researcher, I'm a developer working on some semantically informed
applications, so I'm not as familiar with the state of the art here; thanks for your patience) (1NWL)

MaxVoelkel, FZI: Of course, meaning extraction is also a nice branch of technology, but in my view,
one should ask the user, if the extraction was ok, or at least treat
the two kinds of facts (explicity, extracted) (1NWM)

MaxVoelkel, FZI: "how to do as much semantics as possible with as little user exposure as possible" (1NWP)

YaronKoren: Well, this "challenge" ("if it is not useful in semantic wikis, it is not useful at all")
seems like a bit of a tautology - given that any kind of content can show up on a wiki page,
for something to be useful there seems to just mean that it's useful. (1NWQ)

ChristophLange: little user exposure could generally mean: whenever the user contributes sth.,
assume that (s)he is willing to give more information in that moment. So ask him/her about
why he did so, and record the answer in the knowledge base (as in Max's example on photo tagging) (1NWR)

HaroldSolbrig: I'd like to argue that there are two functions - the creation of ontological knowledge
(wikipedia, semantic wiki, tagging, etc) and knowledge maintenance - Protege and like tools
that are used by specialists to integrate and coordinate. (1NWS)

HaroldSolbrig: We use a model where SME's suggest in whatever degree of formalism they are comfortable,
suggestions are exported, Ontology engineers integrate with specialized tools, return to
the semantic wiki for sign-off or correction. (1NWV)

HaroldSolbrig: We've lost too much SME value by making them fit their knowledge to the tool rather than v-v,
but we still need quality and consistency in the output. (1NWW)

HaroldSolbrig: You touched on that in the talk. The notion that Wikis are organic through and through.
We've encountered some real issues when jit software collides with traditional software
development methodologies. (1NX1)

HaroldSolbrig: SW development is going to have to change - is a template software or content? How about a query? (1NX2)

HaroldSolbrig: Part of what makes Wiki and Semantic Wiki powerful for us is that it is easy to change
templates, scripts, plugins, etc. to customize the environment to specific SME requirements.
(Semantic Forms & related tools as well). (1NX8)

HaroldSolbrig: If the environment doesn't fit your needs, we tweak the forms and associated tools so they do. (1NX9)

HaroldSolbrig: If I change a form, does it have to go through sw change control? (We are hosted on a
government site, which makes it even more tricky - the EPA got burned really bad by some
unsolicited content...) (1NXA)

MaxVoelkel, FZI: Session 2-6 are not cast in stone, but seemed to make a nice structure to cover most topics (1NY0)

PeterYim: it was supposed to ... we have a "program committee" of sorts (we refer to them as co-champions here)
who was supposed to seed that discussion ... todays' presented "plan" (which is supposed to be a
strawman) is the first time this has been "socialized" (1NY1)

PeterYim: the program needs to be community driven, and done in the "wiki way!" (1NY2)

PeterYim: I leave for Germany at about 5am tomorrow ... if I have time (after taking care of urgent matters)
I'll work on today's audio archive and post it before my trip) ... if not, I'll work on that
after I get back from ISWC (Karlsruhe) and FOIS (Saarbrueken) (1NY5)

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